“We have a handful of competitors that cause us a lot of headaches. With Distil, we’ve stopped them from scraping our data, which protects our competitive advantage. In addition, we’ve reduced the load by 22%, and as a result, our customers experience faster response times.”

-- Principal Solutions Developer at leading online beauty retailer

Overview

One of Europe’s largest independent online beauty retailers offers thousands of products across a broad range of brands. This e-tailer knows who its closest competitors are, and suspected several of them of web scraping. The problem became serious when the scraping became more advanced.

The online beauty retailer realized they were a victim of advanced site scraping; competitors were following their every move and undercutting them in the market in real-time. With the intent to thwart competitors’ efforts to scrape important pricing data and other information from its website, the retailer sought the help of Distil Networks.

Challenges

Competitors were scraping product and pricing data, using it to lure customers away

Traffic from malicious bots was consuming server resources and slowing site performance

Automated and offloaded bot detection, saving a day and a half per week in IT resources

About the Author

Distil Networks, the global leader in bot detection and mitigation, is the first easy and accurate way to identify and police malicious website traffic, blocking 99.9% of bad bots without impacting legitimate users. Distil protects against web scraping, competitive data mining, account hijacking, form spam and click fraud while slashing the high tax that bots place on your internal teams and web infrastructure.

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Contact

Distil Networks protects mission-critical websites, mobile apps, and APIs from automated threats without affecting the flow of business-critical traffic. We defend customers against web scraping, account takeover, transaction fraud, denial of service, competitive data mining, unauthorized vulnerability scans, spam, click fraud, and web and mobile API abuse. Only Distil’s unique, more holistic approach provides the vigilant service, superior technology, and industry expertise needed for full visibility and control over human, good bot, and bad bot traffic. As their ally in the war against bots, we provide customers with vigilant and dedicated support so that when they’re under attack, there is a team of experts ready to help. With Distil, there is finally a defense against automated attacks that is as adaptable and vigilant as the threat itself.

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